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2018-11-05 , 10:15
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Originally Posted by ste-phan View Post
32GB is still standard today, and Nokia generously provided it in 2010, I suppose either all 32GB sizes were pretty high end or some corners other than it not being the fastest one around must have been cut in the process.
Does anyone know if the N900's flash is SLC or MLC?
This should make a big difference in terms of longevity. I have 2 SLC USB sticks also from 2008 which I've mainly used for mobile Linux Systems, one of them quite intensively. Both are still working fine.


Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
You should be; electromigration will eat your chipset soonet or later. Very much sooner the more heat you pump into it by overclocking
I've never understood, why overCLOCKING alone would introduce more heat into a component. As I understand it, it's overVOLTING that actually increases temperatures.
Granted, both are often done together, because overvolting helps with overclocking, but the way I see it, overclocking alone, without overvolting should be totally safe.

That being said, just some weeks ago I had a desktop CPU and its board from 2008 dying on me. I had the CPU overclocked and also very slightly overvolted during the first two years of its lifetime. But after that the computer ran fine on stock speed and voltage for another eight years, before it showed any problems.
 

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